Chris Hodgetts

The Ford Escort 1600i with which Chris Hodgetts finished second overall in the British Touring Car Championship in 1985

Chris Hodgetts (born December 6, 1950 in Tanworth-in-Arden ) is a former British racing driver .

Career

Chris Hodgetts was one of the most successful drivers in the British Touring Car Championship in the 1980s . In 1980 he achieved his first podium finish with third place in the race in Mallory Park . After finishing second in 1981 on a Toyota Celica GT , third in 1983 , this time on a Ford Escort 1600i , and another runner-up in 1985 , he won the championship in 1986 and 1987 in a Toyota Corolla .

In addition to the British touring car races, Hodgetts was active in many other racing series. In 1990 he won the overall classification of the TVR Tuscan Challenge and in 1995 the title in the GT2 class of the British GT Championship on a Marcos LM600 . In the last few years of the sports car world championship , he drove there with racing cars from Spice and Tiga and in 1989 at Le Mans drove a works Mazda 767B together with Dave Kennedy and Pierre Dieudonné in seventh place in the overall standings.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1988	Charles Ivey Racing	Tiga GC287	Tim Harvey	John Sheldon	Rank 20
1989	Mazdaspeed	Mazda 767B	Pierre Dieudonné	Dave Kennedy	Rank 7
1990	Spice engineering	Spice SE90C	Tim Harvey	Fermín Vélez	Rank 18
1995	Team Marcos	Marcos 600LM	Cor Euser	Thomas Erdos	failure	electronics

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1993	Ed Arnold Racing	BMW M5	Dieter Quester	David Donohue	Rank 20

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

• Chris Hodgetts at the British Racing Driver's Club
• Chris Hodgetts at Racing Sports Cars